Display-rack.



' 'PATENTEDIMAR. a1, 1903..

w. E LAMBDBN.

DISPLAY mom APPLIOATION TILED JAN. 3,1902.

.UNELD l STATES \VILLIAM ED\VARD LAMBDEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK..

DISPLAY-RACK.

SIEECilFI(JAJIi.:ION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 723,885, datedMarch 31, 1903.

' Application filed January 2, 1902. Serial No. 88,200. (No model.) I

play box; and the invention is particularly adapted for displayingvelvets, plushes, and similar fabrics.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap and simple devicewhich can be'ap plied to the ordinary boxes now in common use and bymeans of which plush, velvet, or other fabric can be displayed to itsbest advantage. Y

The invention consists also in certain details of construction andnovelties'of combination, all of which will be fully describedhereinafter and pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings forming part of this speci-' fication, Figure l is aperspective view showing the practical application of my invention, therack being set up-and the fabric being placed thereon for displayingpurposes. Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the rack setup, thefabric being omitted from the rollers and the rack in order to moreclearly illustrate the construction of the device. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view illustrating the manner of journaling the rollers andsecuring the upright standards. Fig. 4 is an. enlarged sectional Viewshowing the journalplates in section. Fig. 5 is a sectional viewillustrating the socket-plates and standards in section. Fig. 6 is adetail sectional view illustrating the manner of connecting thecross-bars to the standards. Fig. 7 is a similar section takenhorizontally through the standards and guides, and Fig. 8 is a detailperspective view illustrating a portion of one of the standards.

In. carrying out my invention I employ a box or case A, which isconstructed substantially the same as boxes or cases nowjn common use,said. boxes having hinged sides A,

which turn down in order to more perma-.

nently display the goods contained therein.

plate D, each end of the box having a socketplate atttached thereto andhaving a vertical socket D, in which fits the lower end of the uprightstandard E, said lower end having a flattened portion E, against whichthe set-screw E is adapted to bind, thereby holding the standard in afixed upright position. Inasmuch as there is a socket-plate attached toeach end there will of course be two uprights E, andthese uprights areconnected at their upper ends by means of a cross-bar F and intermediatetheir ends by means of cross-bar G, said cross=bars F and G havingguides F" and G, respectively, which slide upon standards E, and workingthrough these guides F and G arethe setscrews F and G respectively,saidset-screws or binding-screws bearing againstithe flattened portions Fand G respectively, produced upon the outer sides of the standards E,thereby securely locking the cross-bars F and G in their properhorizontal positions. The rack as now set up is ready todisplay thefabric which is contained within'the box arid is rolled upon rollers B,and in order to display said fabrics the end portion'thereof is unwoundfrom. the roller and thrown over one of the cross-bars. The fabricof-the other roller "is partly unwound and spread across theothercross-bar, as most clearlyillustratedin Fig. 1.

It will thus be seen that I provide an exceedingly cheap and simpledispla'yrack, which can be quickly and easily set up and taken down andone which isparticularly adapted for use in'connection with ainerchandise-box.

If desired, the standards and cross-rods can be made of such length thatthey can be contained within the box at the same time the goods arearranged therein, so that with each box of goods a rack can be shippedat the same time, if so desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A display-rack consisting of a suitable base, uprights and adjustablecross-bars arranged thereon and parallel rollers revolubly mounted inthe base and at a distance below the lowermost cross-bar.

2. A display-rack consisting of a suitable base having slightly-elevatedend portions, parallel rollers revolubly mounted therein, standardssecured to the ends of the base midway the rollers and adjustablecross-bars connecting the standards.

3. In a display-rack, the combination with a suitable base, ofdetachable parallel rollers \VILLIAM EDWARD LAMBDEN.

\Vitnesses:

HERMAN LEHRENKRAUSS, WILLIAM W. BISHOP.

